The July uprising of 2024 paved the way for reimagining Bangladesh’s economic future.

One of the first things Banga would have to tackle is reforming and modernising the institution, something that stakeholders have asked for across sectors.

The global lender says in its latest report on Bangladesh development update

We cannot continue to allow wealthy countries to externalise the damage of their pollution spree.

Regulators must be willing to adopt a vision for Bangladesh that is more technology and productivity based.

Bangladesh’s economic leadership must devote its integrity to ensuring quality growth along with lower income inequality.

The World Bank has projected 7.2 percent GDP growth for Bangladesh in the 2019-20 current fiscal year while 7.3 percent in the following fiscal year.

Emerging and developing economies are less well positioned to withstand a deeper global downturn, should it occur, than they were before the 2009 global recession, the World Bank says.

The Bangladesh economy is forecast to achieve the second highest growth rate this fiscal year in South Asia, the World Bank said in its biennial regional economic update yesterday.

The World Bank has approved a loan of $100 million to increase access to improved water supply and sanitation system in 30 municipalities in Bangladesh as well as to help build their capacity for delivering water and sanitation services.

The World Bank has approved a $165 million grant to help Bangladesh provide basic services and build disaster and social resilience for the Rohingyas who fled violence in Myanmar and took shelter in Teknaf and Ukhia upazilas in Cox's Bazar.

More than three-quarters of Bangladesh’s population is at risk of declining living standards due to rising temperature and erratic rainfall from climate change, the World Bank says.

The border haats set up by Bangladesh and India have been cited by the World Bank as a commendable example of South Asian regional cooperation.

Hartwig Schafer, vice president of World Bank for the South Asian Region, arrives in Dhaka this afternoon on a week-long visit to further deepen the longstanding partnership between Bangladesh and the World Bank Group.

The World Bank has finally agreed to provide Bangladesh a grant to meet the basic needs of around one million Rohingyas who fled their homeland Myanmar, a high government official said.

The deteriorating health of banking sector has become a major concern for the economy, the World Bank said yesterday.

The World Bank questions 7.65 percent growth projection for the current fiscal year raising doubts over claims of robust expansion of manufacturing sector and domestic demand.

World Bank approves $560 million for two projects in Bangladesh to improve power supply and help microenterprises become environmentally sustainable.

The government of Bangladesh signs an agreement with the World Bank under which the lending agency will provide $245 million additional financing to improve equity, efficiency and transparency of the country's major safety net programmes.

The World Bank approves a total of $570 million for two projects in Bangladesh to improve health, nutrition, and population services and strengthen the country’s public procurement.